Shadowy Quotes

88 Shadowy quotes by 80 unique authors

Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I… — Helen Keller
This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as… — Rod Serling
…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy… — William Faulkner
The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father,… — P.D. James
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers… — W. Somerset Maugham
...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty… — Anita Desai
I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for… — Alice Munro
...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to… — David Brin
Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if… — Rick Riordan
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching… — Elizabeth Kostova
My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a… — Isabel Allende
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained… — Wilkie Collins
Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same: that… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever… — Joseph Conrad
What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms… — Walker Percy
Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world. — Jane Yolen
We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the… — Richard Matheson
Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the… — Michelle Moran
•"for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its… — Gustave Flaubert
Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the… — Meghan O'Rourke
There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
And somewhere in that crimson-colored never-never land where i pirouetted madly, in a wild and crazy effort to exhaust myself into insensibility, i saw that… — Virginia C. Andrews
Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must… — Victor Hugo
I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else… — C.S. Lewis
I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in… — Edgar Allan Poe

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